July 28, 2014

The New York City Housing Authority would rank below all of the city's landlords if it were a private owner, according to a report by the nonprofit advocacy group Community Service Society scheduled to be released today. Heating and leaks topped the problems for close to a third of the city's public-housing residents in 2011, compared with 17% of low-income residents in privately owned buildings, according to the report. [The Wall Street Journal]

Regulators have been looking into questions about whether JPMorgan Chase may have directed private-banking clients to invest in its own investment products, sources said. In response, the bank has changed its policies to mark a clearer line between internal and outside offerings to clients. [The Wall Street Journal]

Brooklyn Brewery is hoping to build a $70 million, 200,000-square-foot facility on the western shore of Staten Island. The brewery is seeking a 20- to 25-acre property with direct rail access and in relatively close proximity to the New York/New Jersey port system to produce beers for export to overseas markets. [Crain's New York Business]

City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced today that New York's pension funds showed a 17.4% return for fiscal year 2014, bringing their value to a record high of $160.5 billion. The increased returns mean the city will have to contribute less from its own coffers for the fund in coming years. [Crain's New York Business]

Chop't CEO Nick Marsh has built a successful chain of design-your-own-salad shops around New York. Now he is looking to take the brand national. But hawking veggies in Middle America might be a tough sell. [New York Post]

Equinox Fitness is expected to announce today that it is buying Sports Club/LA and Reebok Sports Club/NY, the last properties owned by Millennium Partners, which sold half its clubs to the firm three years ago. With the new gyms, Equinox would have 73 locations, mostly in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London. [DealBook]

A Deerfield Beach, Fla., eatery boasting “New York kosher-style” food has agreed to drop its Katz's Deli name after being hit with a $1 million lawsuit by the famed Houston Street restaurant. Under the agreement struck in Manhattan federal court, the Florida business will change its name, and the New York original will drop its claim for damages. [Daily News]

Should an ambulatory-surgery center that falls short of its projected charity-care cases be able to pay cash for the difference? That was the question debated at a meeting last week of the Committee on Establishment and Public Review of the Public Health and Health Planning Council. Four-year-old Rye ASC, a multispecialty ambulatory surgery center, is the facility being questioned. [Crain's Health Pulse]

New York Old Iron, a resale shop located in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, is building a clientele of artists and curators for its showroom of abandoned signs, sinks and doors. Items aren't priced, and haggling is just a part of the game. [The New York Times]

Mayor Bill de Blasio and family spent their first night in Gracie Mansion Sunday after a nine-day vacation in Italy. Mr. de Blasio had debated uprooting his family from their Park Slope home, but now says Gracie Mansion will be their primary residence. [Daily News]